Lay-Flat Books
If you’re looking for a way to showcase your photographs in the most captivating manner, Imagine it in Print’s Lay-Flat Photo Books are the perfect choice. Our photo books feature an innovative lay-flat design that ensures that panoramic spreads and images stretch seamlessly across two pages without losing any detail in the centre. This attribute is crucial for preserving every nuance of your photos, making it ideal for displaying high-quality images such as wedding photographs, professional portfolios, or even unique service orders.
Offering a versatile range from 24 to 200 pages, these photo books can be fully customised to match your specific requirements. Whether you’re curating a compact album of cherished memories or a comprehensive portfolio of your work, our Lay-Flat Photo Books quickly adapt to your vision. They serve as photo albums and timeless keepsakes that narrate your story with clarity and splendour.
Choosing Imagine it in Print for your photo book needs means opting for a product that will preserve your memories and present them in a professional and impressive format. The lay-flat design is particularly suited for photographs that span two pages, ensuring there is no distortion or seam interference, which is often a concern with traditional binding methods. This makes our Lay-Flat Photo Books an ideal solution for anyone looking to immortalise their moments in a manner that is both elegant and accessible.
Guideline | Explanation | Layout guide |
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We highly recommend using our templates and guides to prepare your print-ready PDF. | You can download our guides by clicking the guides button to the right. Remember to delete the template layers before exporting your design to PDF. If you have a design already, we accept other file formats, such as JPEG, PNG, or EPS. We recommend using specific file formats to ensure the best quality of your content. For photographic content, we suggest using high-resolution JPEGs without compression. For graphics or text-based content, we recommend using print-ready, vector-based PDFs. If your content combines graphics and photography, we suggest using print-ready PDFs to achieve the best possible quality. | |
Save your files in a print-ready format | Save your files in an uneditable print-ready format such as PDF, TIFF, JPG, EPS) Your files should be flattened to one layer, the background layer, before submission. | |
Use CMYK as the colour mode. | Make sure to use CMYK instead of RGB as the colour mode. Also, use the colour mode FOGRA39 (ISO Coated v2). If you are not sure about the colour mode of your file, don’t worry—we can always convert it for you. However, please keep in mind that converting the colour mode may cause the colours to appear differently from the original file. | |
Ink Coverage | Make sure that ink coverage is not more than 300%. Force Colour Images to CMYK with a 260% ink limit (in Photoshop > Convert Colour Profile > Photoshop 5 Default CMYK) | |
Add 3 mm bleed and keep 4 mm safety margin | During production, there may be a slight cut deviation. To avoid any issues, we recommend the following: Add a 3mm bleed around all edges of your design. Keep essential elements 4 mm away from the edge or folding lines. Please also see below for wire-o-bound Avoid using borders or frames on smaller formats | |
Resolution of at least 300 dpi. | Ensure the resolution of the images and graphics in your artwork are at least 300 dpi. | |
Convert fonts to outlines or embed all the fonts. | Make sure you convert fonts to outlines or embed all the fonts when saving them in PDF format. | |
Font size | Fonts should be at least 6pt. | |
Check your artwork for overprint. | Ensure no elements in your artwork are set on overprint unless you want this effect in your design. | |
Lines and Text | Lines and Text should be at least .25pt (negative lines .5pt) | |
Perfect Bound Booklets | The spine area, as identified in the design guide, on the reverse of the cover i snot printable since it is where the interior pages will be glued The first interior page in the template will be on the RIGHT side of the final product’s spread Ensure you include the correct number of pages in your PDF. By example, for a 64 paged perfect bound booklet, there will be 60 interior pages + 2 spreads (cover / back cover on the first spread & first and last interior pages on the second spread) = 62 pages Please see here for spine sizes. | |
Wire-o-bound Booklets | Ensure that text and images are at least 11mm from the left edge for odd pages and 11mm from the right edge for even pages to allow for the wire | |
Hard-cover books | The reverse side of the cover cannot be printed. The first interior page in the template will appear on the right side of the final spread in the product. Please ensure that your PDF includes the correct number of pages. For example, for a 64-page hardcover book order, your PDF should contain 64 interior pages plus the cover/back spread, totaling 65 pages. We will add a blank page before and after your interior pages, so please do not include these in your artwork. |
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